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Purse snatching foiled by pistol-packing granny

Investigators said there is no surveillance video showing the man or the robbery

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Updated: 9:19 AM PDT Jun 6, 2017

Purse snatching foiled by pistol-packing granny

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WEBVTT 84-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IS OK.>> I'D BEEN TAUGHT TO STAND UPFOR WHAT'S RIGHT IN THE WORLDAND TO BE THERE TO HELP OTHERSDAN: MARY MOORE IS NOW BEINGCALLED THE PISTOL PACKINGGRANNY.ON HER WAY TO PICK-UP HERGRANDKIDS THIS MORNING, SHE SAWAN 84-YEAR-OLD WOMAN CHASING AROBBER ALONG NORTH MAIN STREETIN FRANKLIN.A MAN HAD SNATCHED HER PURSEOUTSIDE A BUSINESS.>> INSTINCT JUST KICKED IN TOFOLLOW HIM.DAN: MOORE SAYS THE MAN APPEAREDTO HAVE A GUN IN A HOLSTER.SHE HAS HAD HER CONCEALED CARRYFOR FOUR YEARS, WANTING TO AVOIDBEING VICTIMIZED WHILE SHEBATTLED BREAST CANCER.IT PAID OFF.>> I ALERTED HIM THAT I HAD MYCCW AND THAT I WOULD LIKE HIM TOPLEASE DROP HER PURSE AND TOSTOP, YOU KNOW, THAT THE POLICEWERE ONTHEIR WAY.AND HE DROPPED THE PURSE, TURNEDHIS BACK TO ME, HELD HIS HANDSUP IN THE AIR AND SAID YOU CAN'TSHOOT ME IN THE BACK, AND I AMGOING TO GO AHEAD AND GO.DAN: THE MAN RAN.MOORE CALLS HIM A COWARD.IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT FORHER, AND THE 84-YEAR-OLD WOMAN,WHO IS AFRAID TO BE IDENTIFIED.>> I'M STILL SHAKY, I'M REALLYSHAKY.DAN: THE 84-YEAR-OLD IS SORE ANDNERVOUS.BUT ALSO GRATEFUL.>> SHE SAID LADY, I'VE GOT YOURPURSE, I'VE GOT EVERYTHING.I WAS RELIEVED BECAUSE I'VENEVER BEEN THROUGH ANYTHING LIKETHIS.DAN: MOORE SAYS THANKFULLY NOONE GONE HURT.>> YOU NEVER KNOW, WHEN YOU PULLA GUN ON SOMEBODY, SOMEBODY ELSETHAT'S STANDING UP FOR WHAT'SRIGHT MIGHT BE THERE TO STOPYOU, SO MAYBE A LOT OF CROOKS

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FRANKLIN, Ohio —

A woman being called a "pistol-packing granny" helped an 84-year-old woman who was targeted by a robber Monday morning.

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The woman told WLWT she did what she thought was right.

Mary Moore said she'd do it over and over again and that she's grateful the 84-year-old is okay.

"I'd been taught to stand up for what's right in the world and to be there to help others," Moore said.

Moore said while she was on her way to pick up her grandchildren, she saw the woman chasing a robber along North Main Street in Franklin.

A man had snatched her purse outside a business.

"Instinct just kicked in to follow him," Moore said.

Moore said the man appeared to have a gun in a holster. She has had her concealed carry weapon for four years because she wanted to avoid being victimized while she had breast cancer.

It paid off.

"I alerted him that I had my CCW and that I would like him to please drop her purse and to stop, that the police were on their way. He dropped the purse, turned his back to me, held his hands up in the air and said, 'You can't shoot me in the back and I'm going to go ahead and go,'" Moore said.

He then took off.

Moore calls him a coward.

It was an emotional moment for her and the 84-year-old woman, who is afraid to be identified.

"I'm still shaky. I'm really shaky," the 84-year-old said.

She is sore and nervous, but also grateful.

"She said, 'Lady, I've got your purse, I've got everything.' I was relieved because I've never been through anything like this," the woman said.

Moore said thankfully, no one got hurt.

"You never know, when you pull a gun on somebody, somebody else that's standing up for what's right might be there to stop you. Maybe a lot of crooks might start thinking twice about their actions," Moore said.

Moore said she was given a challenge coin and praised by Franklin police.

Her challenge to the would-be robber is to do the right thing.

K-9 officers searched the area, but could not find the man.

Police said there is no surveillance video showing the man or the robbery.